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Michael Dvorkin committed Dec 14, 2014
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boosts Donna's performance by 15-20%. Minor updates usually improve
performance by another 5%.

IMPROVEMENTS

Many things could be improved to make Donna even stronger. Among them:

- Incremental move generator
- Parallel search
- Better move ordering
- Smarter search tree pruning
- Evaluation tuning
- Search cut off tuning
- Time control tuning

THANK YOU!

Chess programming in Go turned out to be a fascinating journey. I have never
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- Vadim Demichev, Gull
- Vladimir Medvedev, GreKo

Special thanks goes to my old time buddy grandmaster Eduardas Rozentalis who
inspired me to develop a chess engine.

DEDICATION

Donna chess engine is dedicated to Lithuanian grandmaster Donatas Lapienis,
the man who taught me how to play chess, among other things. In the mid
1970's (pre-computer era), Donatas was the highest ranking correspondence
chess player in the world with ELO rating of 2715.

Special thanks goes to my old time buddy grandmaster Eduardas Rozentalis who
inspired me to develop a chess engine.

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Michael Dvorkin
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import `regexp`

const Version = `0.9`
const Version = `1.0` // Dec 14, 2014

// Limits and conventions.
const (
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